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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE S. GRINNELL, OF \VALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF TVVO- THIRDS TO EBEN WV. BLAKE AND ROBERT BURGESS, OF SAME PLACE.

LOOM-PICKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,478, dated June 4, 1889.

Application filed November 12, 1888., Serial No. 290,652. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EUGENE S. GEINNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waltham, in the county of Middlesex and State of 5 Massachusetts, have invented a new and usef ul Improvement in Loom-Pickers, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of a loom-picker constructed in IO accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is a side view thereof.

Three strips of leather (4 a a" are placed side by side to form the body of the picker, and are secured together by rivets a a and I 5 a passed through the same below the middle of the length thereof, and a rivet a, passed through near the upper end of the body. These rivets may be disposed in any suitable manner, and any number thereof found suffi- 2o cient may be employed at the opposite ends of the picker-body, it being necessary only that a portion of the body of the picker adjacent to the striking-point be left free from fastenings of this kind.

5 b are re-enforcin g pieces, shorter in length than the pieces a a a and placed on opposite sides of the said pieces adjacent to the striking-point, the said pieces I) I) being secured in place by rivets B B, passing through the body of the picker at points equidistant above and below the striking-point.

B is an indentation made for the reception of the shuttle-tip.

B is a recess for the reception of the loop which binds the picker to the picker-staff.

The picker is secured upon thcpicker-staff with the edges of the strips in position to receive the contact with the shuttle-tip. The wear from the impact of the shuttle-tip at first will be upon the strip at until the latter is 40' worn away sufficiently to permit contact with the side strips a a. Thereafter each time the shuttle-tip strikes against the picker the side strips give way laterally, the elastic 11ature of the material of such strips causing them to straighten again when the shuttle has come to rest in the shuttle-box or has left the box in its flight across the loom. In this manner the shock occasioned by the contact of the picker with the shuttle is lessened, and

danger of the copbeing stripped from the shuttle-spindle is diminished.

I claim A loom-picker composed of a number of strips of leather secured together near the opposite ends thereof, having the striking face on the edge of said strips, and the re-enforcing strips on opposite sides secured to the body of the picker by rivets passing through the body at points above and below the strik- 6o ing-point, whereby provision is made for the lateral expansion of the body by separation of the strips when the picker comes in contact with a loom-shuttle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name 6 5 to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 23d day of October,

EUGENE S. GRINNELL.

Witnesses:

VIoToE L. PARKER, THOMAS YATES. 

